Re: Garmin GPS-18 connected by USB
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:24:38PM -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> I have recently purchased a GPS that I hoped would be portable and easy to use.
>
> The Garmin GPS-18 is about the size of a 6' tape measure.
>
> It is USB and gets its power from USB.
>
> However, I cannot get gpsd to talk to it. Because of that, the other
> programs that work with the GPS (xgps, gpsman, gpsdrive) can't find it
> either.
>
> Maybe I am not configuring something correclty.
>
> Does anyone know how to set this up so it will work?
>
> lsusb show:
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 091e:0003 Garmin International GPSmap 60C
>
> But apparently I don't know how to configure gpsd to look at it.
>
> dpkg-reconfigure gpsd tell me to use something like /dev/ttyUSB0.
> I've tried that and I've tried /dev/ttyUSB1.
>
> No joy.
>
> I've seen some tools on sourceforge (garmin_gps), but they require a 2.6 kernel.
> I've got: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Wed Dec 1 19:43:08 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
If it's just an usb serial port then you can use it with the usbserial module,
you probably need to provide the vendor and product id for that... The gps
receivers i've seen are basically serial ports (either bluetooth or usb serial)
If that isn't the case then you are indeed forced to use specialized tools
and/or kernel drivers for the thing
sjoerd
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